Articles by Laura Taylor

Noticing a Dunkin Donuts gift card atop a bathroom sink as you wash your hands. Being handed an envelope full of quarters to pay for parking. Finding a Target gift card waiting for you in the elevator after a tough test. Sounds too good to be true, right? If you are lucky enough to be…

This Friday evening, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art was packed to the point of overflow by people eager to see the opening of the gallery’s most recent exhibition. What was most impressive about this turnout to Friday’s opening reception was that this large group did not come to see the work of a well-known,…

“In the end, you’re not who you were before. You’re different. You’re changed. You may even feel like your old values have been, in a sense, ruined by this new worldview. As confusing or as difficult as that may sound, it’s a good thing.” The above quote by writer Jeff Goins describes the feeling one…

Australia. Greece. Italy. Africa. Brazil. In only ninety minutes, the dancers featured in Embracing Pangaea were able to transport an eager audience across continents and through time in order to explore dance’s influence around the world. On March 15 through 17, the Department of Theatre and Dance presented its spring dance concert, Embracing Pangaea, in…

From 7:30 p.m. Friday night until 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning, Dance Marathon participants stayed on their feet in TD Arena for 13 hours to benefit MUSC Children’s Hospital and Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. “Very tiring, but worth it,” was how participant Raychel Simpson described the night when I spoke to her the next day, “I…

“A public private moment” is how Miranda Cromwell, director of “Dancing at Lughnasa,” described the play by Brian Friel during the talkback which occurred after the Department of Theatre and Dance’s opening of the show on Thursday night. That feeling of being on the outside looking into something deeply personal is certainly what is evoked by…

If you had to take one guess as to what a play with the title “Bat-Hamlet” is about, you would probably be correct. That’s right, “Bat-Hamlet” is what you get when you combine Shakespeare’s classic tragedy “Hamlet” and everyone’s favorite caped crusader, Batman. Writer of “Bat-Hamlet” Jordan Pulliam describes the play as taking “the basic narrative from Shakespeare’s famous tragedy…

“It’s Sweet to be a Cougar” was the theme for College of Charleston’s Homecoming 2014 last week, and the members of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity certainly embraced this motto. Each year, the College of Charleston’s Homecoming Committee plans a week of events and competitions leading up to the Homecoming basketball game. These events include a…

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